The Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, a national network that supports and strengthens regional associations in their promotion of effective philanthropy to improve lives in their communities, consists of 34 geographically-based professional associations, each staffed by one to twenty+ people. Seventeen associations share a common technology platform. The Forum wanted to move away from a very custom content management solution and CRM to something more open and flexible. The associations chose Drupal for CMS, Salesforce for CRM, and ThinkShout to build the distribution, including the integration code for syncing Drupal with Salesforce.

• Why we considered Drupal multisite — but advised against it
• Why was Pantheon One chosen for hosting?
• Coordinating site-specific as well as distribution-wide improvements: the forgotten challenge of distributions
• Any hiccups?